TUNISIA: Goodbye to Four Wives

As one of its first acts as an independent
nation, the new Moslem-dominated state of Tunisia this week abolished
plural marriage (up to four wives at any one time) sanctioned for
Moslems by the Koran and by the example of Prophet Mohammed. "These
measures have been taken to better protect the home, the base of
society," announced Premier Habib Bourguiba, an Arab who has but one
wife, a Frenchwoman. He added that girls would no longer be permitted
to become child-brides at 14 or less, that youths and girls over 20
need...